IKEA UK has launched a competition giving Exeter school children the chance to win £2,000 towards projects which will help reduce their school’s carbon footprint.
The retailer is working in partnership with the Let's Go Zero campaign, coordinated by climate solutions charity Ashden, which calls on all UK schools to become carbon zero by 2030.
The competition encourages teachers, nursery children, primary and secondary pupils in Exeter to sign up and submit ideas which will make their school more sustainable – whether reducing emissions or increasing biodiversity – as...
Enrique Ruiz Cano is an English language teaching specialist who currently works for a state Primary school in Spain (CEIP Nuestra Senora de la Fuensanta from Beniajan in the Murcia region of south eastern Spain). He has also taught in a wide range of summer school in the UK up and down the country. What’s more, he has family links in Norfolk and Kent which he considers his second homes.
He set up a pioneering network of Primary schools in Devon both in Exeter and near Exeter which were successful when it came to gaining Erasmus+ funding from the European Union. This EU programme...
Year five and six pupils from Kenn C of E Primary School collected over several bags of litter during a beach clean which will now be transformed into a recycled plastic bench for their playground.
Independent commercial waste management firm DCW partnered with Keep Britain Tidy’s Ocean Recovery Project, supported by South West Water, to organise the beach clean in Exmouth. The clean was set-up to give local school children a valuable lesson in recycling and the dangers plastic litter can have on the coastal landscape and its wildlife.
The number of UK schools with international links has gone downhill since Brexit kicked in and the UK government’s decision to opt out of the Erasmus+ study scheme.
Redhills Primary school from Exeter back in early 2014 led by Mr Stuart Busby (headteacher of the school in those days) set up a pioneering link with Mr Enrique Ruiz Cano’s old school in Lorca, Spain and a school in Riga, Latvia so as to get an innovative project off the ground.
This initiative included both online collaborative activities between the students from the 3 countries and physical mobilities of...
Queen Elizabeth's Photography Department was donated six cameras, worth £7,400 total, from Sony Europe B.V. as part of the company’s approach to inspire the photographers of the future.
Sony Europe, in partnership with the exceptionally talented London based photographer Tom Oldham, visited the school last week to run a full day workshop and one-to-one hands-on sessions with GCSE and A-Level students at QE. Students were then able to try out the new cameras and experiment with newly acquired techniques.
Tom Oldham is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Open Photographer...
The Devon launch of a national project to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 took place at an Exeter primary school on Tuesday (October 12) with a ceremonial tree planting.
The Queen’s representative in Devon, the Lord-Lieutenant David Fursdon, and the Vice Lord-Lieutenant Lady Arran presented a Pyrus Calleryana Chanticleer, also known as a Chanticleer Pear, to Wynstream Primary School.
The tree was accepted on behalf of the school by Head Teacher Gill Brown and School Governors Peter Vickery and Poppy Daly.
Staff and students at South Devon High School are celebrating as its career guidance programme is awarded top marks.
The school reached the milestone of 100% across all eight Gatsby Benchmarks, which are a framework developed to support schools and colleges in providing their students with the best possible careers education and guidance.
South Devon High School is the first in Torbay to reach this 100% milestone and is only the fifth mainstream school across all of Devon and Somerset to achieve the accolade.
“We are extremely proud as a school to be recognised as...
As part of Michelmores' efforts to help local communities in Exeter, Bristol and London, the Firm is donating over a hundred PCs and monitors to schools in these cities. The initiative is to help children and teachers have access to online learning and contributes to significant interaction with valued online resources in classrooms and at home.
The schools include St Peter's Secondary School, St Luke's Secondary School, and St Michael's Primary School in Exeter, alongside schools in Bristol and London. The importance of donating this IT equipment has been highlighted by the...
Parents, children and teachers in Exeter are being asked to share their experiences of lockdown learning as part of a new survey.
Experts hope the research will help them develop new support for pupils in the city this summer to help their wellbeing and education.
The study, led by Professor Justin Dillon from the University of Exeter’s Graduate School of Education, will shed light on the impact of coronavirus lockdowns and changes to schooling over the last year on Exeter children, their parents and teachers in the EX1-4 postcodes.
A Tiverton boarding school has purchased a new fleet of grounds equipment after securing a six-figure funding package from HSBC UK as part of a wider overhaul of the grounds within the school’s 120-acre site.
Blundell’s School switched banks to HSBC UK in October 2020 and has used additional funding from the bank to purchase a fleet of high-quality grounds equipment, including tractors, a four-meter-long mower and a turf conditioner. Head Groundsman Graham Cox, who joined Blundell’s last January, has seen improvements on many fronts thanks to the new equipment.
